Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPoneropsis hypolithaComb novSyn(Cockerell)Late EoceneBembridge Marls A Dolichoderin antjr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus
Mollusca Newly named bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesSimilodonta.Gen et sp novValid Soot-ReynMiddle Ordovician to Middle Silurian ()
(, , , , and )New genus and species with five other species moved from other genera
Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensisHu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Hu Turonian Ulansuhai Formation A member of Neovenatoridae Eustreptospondylus oxoniensisWalker, A.D. 1964. Triassic Reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of Carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B 248: pp. 53-35. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Walker Callovian Oxford Clay Formation A megalosaurid Eustreptospondylus divesensis Sp. nov. Valid Walker Callovian Marnes de Dives Later given the genus Piveteausaurus Fabrosaurus australisGinsburg, L. 1964. Découverte d'un Scelidosaurian (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias supérieur du Basutoland. Compte rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, tome 258: pp. 2366-2368. Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium. Ginsburg Sinemurian Upper Elliot Formation An early ornithischian Lambeosaurus paucidens Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Ostrom Campanian Judith River Formation A new combination for Hadrosaurus paucidens, which may be a ceratopsian Metriacanthosaurus Gen. nov. Valid Walker Oxfordian Oxford Clay Formation A new species for Megalosaurus parkeri
Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgriocharis progenes Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbBlancan A Meleagridae.Anabernicula oregonensis Sp. nov.Valid HowardMiddle PleistoceneFossil Lake ()An Anatidae.Asio priscus Sp. nov.Valid HowardLate PleistoceneSanta Rosa Island Formation ()A Strigidae.Nettion greeni Sp. nov.jr synonym BrodkorbEarly PlioceneAsh Hollow Formation ()An Anatidae, transferred to Anas greeni.Tympanonesiotes Gen et Sp. nov.jr synonym? HopsonEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation ( and A Pseudodontornithidae, type species T. wetmorei, transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages Dsungaripterus Valid Young
A Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur. Germanodactylus Valid Yang The German Finger.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name Status Authors Notes Strongylokrotaphus junior synonym Novozhilov junior synonym of Pliosaurus
Other animals Other newly named animals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBeornGen et Sp. nov.ValidCooperLate Cretaceous (Campanian) A tardigrade; originally placed in its own family (Beornidae), it was later reclassified as a member of the Hypsibiidae.
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